Re: LYNX-DEV Re: Win32 Lynx

[Wayne Buttles]

On Sat, 15 Mar 1997, Hiram Lester, Jr. wrote:

> On Sat, 15 Mar 1997, Wayne Buttles wrote:
> 
> > Personally, I would really like non-blocking calls to work someday and I
> > have actually found example source for an IRC client that does some.  Now
> > I just gotta figure out what the heck it says. 
> 
> What exactly doesn't work?  I was able to interrupt a transfer with 'z'.
> I started the transfer accidentally, and then hit 'z' to interrupt it, and
> then realized that didn't work, but it DID work...

The way it works currently is that until a packet comes in for Lynx it
doesn't respond.  There is a way to make it able to be interrupted during
any part of the connection--even lookups.

> When I go to edit a mail message, it edits
> (example) H:\L-3388215TMP.txt, and then when it goes to send it, it tries
> to send H:\TEMP/L-3388215TMP.txt.  It reports "Cannot access
> H:\TEMP/L-33882".  My TEMP variable is set to H:/TEMP, so why is Lynx
> using H:/ to create the file?  Even if I save it to the proper location, I
> still get the unable to access, and the filename is only partially
> displayed.  Is this a problem with long filenames, or a problem with
> slashes, or none of the above?

I haven't seen it do that.  What happens when you set it to h:\temp ?

Wayne

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